If you’re like me and follow cannabis news on a daily basis, it’s easy to feel complacent and convince yourself that the fight for medical cannabis is over. After all, a constant barrage of overwhelming positive polls on the issue could make one think focus can finally be shifted toward recreational cannabis and changing federal law.
But, as I often discuss on Cannabis News, there is a small group still fighting tooth and nail against what many believe to be a done deal: The inevitability of medical cannabis laws. We have seen it in Utah over the last several months; a small, but very vocal and at times powerful, coalition of people who still think the notion of allowing sick people the option of cannabis is a dangerous one.
One of those people is United States Senator James Lankford (R-OK). “This state question is being sold to Oklahomans as a compassionate medical marijuana bill by outside groups that actually want access to recreational marijuana,” Lankford recently said in a press release regarding a vote in Oklahoma on medical cannabis later this month (State Question 788). “Most of us have seen first-hand the damage done to families and our communities from recreational marijuana use.”